STORMY WEATHER

ETTA JAMES

SONGWRITERS: Mack Gordon & Harry Warren

COUNTRY:

ALBUM: AT LAST

LABEL: ARGO RECORDS

GENRE: BLUE

YEAR: 1961

"At Last" is a song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the musical film Sun Valley Serenade(1941). Glenn Miller and his orchestra recorded the tune several times, with a 1942 version reaching number two on the US Billboard pop music chart.

In 1960, rhythm and blues singer Etta James recorded an arrangement by Riley Hampton that improvised on Warren's melody. James' version was the title track on her debut álbum At Last!(1960) and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. Celine Dion and Beyoncé also had chart successes with the song.

Etta James (Born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel. Starting her career in 1954, she gained fame with hits such as "The Wallflower", "At Last", "Tell Mama", "Something's Got a Hold on Me", and "I'd Rather Go Blind". She faced a number of personal problems, including heroin addiction, severe physical abuse, and incarceration, before making a musical comeback in the late 1980s with the album Seven Year Itch.

James's powerful, deep, earthy voice bridged the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll. She won six Grammy Awards and 17 Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001. Rolling Stone magazine ranked James number 22 on its list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time; she was also ranked number 62 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

James possessed the vocal range of a contralto. Her musical style changed during the course of her career. At the beginning her recording career, in the mid-1950s, James was marketed as an R&B and doo-wop singer. After signing with Chess Records in 1960, James broke through as a traditional pop-styled singer, covering jazz and pop music standards on her debut album, At Last! James's voice deepened and coarsened, moving her musical style in her later years into the genres of soul and jazz.

James was once considered one of the most overlooked blues and R&B musicians in the music history of the United States. It was not until the early 1990s, when she began receiving major industry awards from the Grammys and the Blues Foundation, that she received wide recognition. In recent years, she was seen as bridging the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll. James has influenced a wide variety of musicians, including Diana Ross, Christina Aguilera, Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Shemekia Copeland, and Hayley Williams of Paramore as well as British artists The Rolling Stones, Elkie Brooks, Paloma Faith, Joss Stone, Rita Ora, and Adele, and the Belgian singer Dani Klein.

Her song "Something's Got a Hold on Me" has been recognized in many ways. Brussels music act Vaya Con Dios covered the song on their 1990 album Night Owls. Another version, performed by Christina Aguilera, was in the 2010 film Burlesque. Pretty Lights sampled the song in "Finally Moving", followed by Avicii's dance hit "Levels", and again in FloRida's single "Good Feeling".

Don't know why

There's no sun up in the sky

Stormy weather

Since my man and I ain't together

Keeps raining all of the time

Oh yeah

Life is bare

Gloom and misery everywhere

Stormy weather, stormy weather

And I just can't get my poor self together

Oh I'm weary all of the time

The time, so weary all of the time

When he went away

The blues walked in and met me

Oh yeah if he stays away

Old rocking chair's gonna get me

All I do is pray

The Lord will let me

Walk in the sun once more

Oh I can't go on, can't go on, can't go on

Everything I have is gone

Stormy weather, stormy weather

Since my man and I, me and my daddy ain't together

Keeps raining all of the time

Oh, oh, keeps raining all of the time

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah raining all of the time

Stormy stormy

Stormy weather

Yeah.

BOLINHA DE PAPEL

ANJOS DO INFERNO

COMPOSITOR:

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: BRASIL PANDEIRO E OUTROS SUCESSOS

GRAVADORA: COLUMBIA

GÊNERO: MARCHINHA DE CARNAVAL

ANO: 1945

Muitos dos sucessos que hoje você ouve com diversos artistas contemporâneos, são originalmente gravações do Anjos do Inferno, um dos mais completos grupos dos anos 40/50. Quem não conhece "Brasil Pandeiro" ou "Nega do cabelo Duro"? Quem ainda não cantou "O Cordão dos Puxa-Saco"? E assim, você agora terá a oportunidade de conhecer a versão original destas músicas, sempre levando-se em conta que são gravações com mais de 70 anos!

Anjos do Inferno foi um conjunto vocal e instrumental brasileiro de samba e marchinha de carnaval formado em 1934. O grupo teve diversas formações ao longo de uns 30 anos, mas mesmo assim conseguiu criar uma identidade sonora típica, devida principalmente ao pistom. O nome veio como ironia à orquestra Diabos do Céu, dirigida por Pixinguinha e muito popular nos anos 30.

O auge da carreira dos Anjos do Inferno foi nos anos 40, na época de ouro do rádio. Foram contratados pelas principais emissoras de rádio do Brasil, tocaram em cassinos e gravaram diversos sucessos de carnaval. conjunto excursionou pela América Latina e Estados Unidos, onde tocou com Carmen Miranda. No total os Anjos do Inferno gravaram uns 86 discos pelas gravadoras Columbia, Continental, Copacabana e RCA Victor.

Oh! Tenho medo da falseta,

Mas adoro a Julieta como adoro a

Papai do Céu

Quero seu amor, minha santinha

Mas só não quero que me faça de bolinha de papel

Tiro você do emprego,

Dou-lhe amor e sossego,

Vou ao banco e tiro tudo pra você gastar

Posso, Julieta, lhe mostrar a caderneta

Se você duvidar.

A SUMMER PLACE

ANDY WILLIAMS

SONGWRITER: MAX STEINER

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: MOON RIVER AND OTHER GREAT MOVIE THEMES

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 1962

"Theme from A Summer Place" is a song with lyrics by Mack Discant and music by Max Steiner, written for the 1959 film A Summer Place, which starred Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue. It was recorded for the film as an instrumental by Hugo Winterhalter. Originally known as the "Molly and Johnny Theme", the piece is not the main title theme of the film, but a secondary love theme for the characters played by Dee and Donahue.

Following its initial film appearance, the theme has been recorded by many artists in both instrumental and vocal versions, and has also appeared in a number of subsequent films and television programs. The best-known cover version of the theme is an instrumental version by Percy Faith and his orchestra that was a Number One hit for nine weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1960.

Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold-certified and 3 platinum-certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971, and numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Show won three Emmy awards. The Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri, is named after the song for which he is best known—Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini's "Moon River". He sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including more than 10 million certified units in the United States.

Williams was active in the music industry for 74 years until his death in 2012.

Building on his experience with Allen and some short-term variety shows in the 1950s, he became the star of his own weekly television variety show in the fall of 1962. Though canceled after 1963 due to low ratings, the show was then sponsored to make 12 weekly specials in the 1963–1964 season. This series, The Andy Williams Show, won three Emmy Awards for outstanding variety program. Among his series regulars were the Osmond Brothers. He gave up the variety show in 1971 while it was still popular, continuing with three specials per year. His Christmas specials, which appeared regularly until 1974 and intermittently from 1982 into the 1990s, were among the most popular of the genre. Williams recorded eight Christmas albums over the years and was known as "Mr. Christmas", due to his perennial Christmas specials and the success of "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year".

Williams hosted the most Grammy telecasts—seven consecutive shows—from the 13th Annual Grammy Awards in 1971 through to the 19th Awards in 1977. He returned to television with a syndicated half-hour series in 1976–77.

In the early 1970s, when the Nixon Administration attempted to deport John Lennon, Williams was an outspoken defender of the former Beatle's right to stay in the United States.

Williams is included in the montage of caricatures on the cover of Ringo Starr's 1973 album, Ringo.

Williams performed during the halftime show of Super Bowl VII in January 1973, held at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

There's a summer place

Where it may rain or storm

Yet I'm safe and warm

For within that summer place

Your arms reach out to me

And my heart is free from all care

For it knows

There are no gloomy skies

When seen through the eyes

Of those who are blessed with love

And the sweet secret of

A summer place

Is that it's anywhere

When two people share

All their hopes

All their dreams

All their love

There's a summer place

Where it may rain or storm

Yet I'm safe and warm

In your arms, in your arms

In your arms, in your arms.

TIL I KISSED YOU

THE EVERLY BROTHERS

SONGWRITER: DON EVERLY

HOW: LIVE 1983

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: THE EVERLY BROTHERS

LABEL: HMEDIA

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1959

"('Till) I Kissed You" is a song written by Don Everly of The Everly Brothers. It was released as a single in 1959 and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Chet Atkins played guitar on this record and Jerry Allison played drums. Recorded 7 July 1959 at RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, and issued as a single (Cadence 1369) July/August 1959 coupled with ‘Oh, What A Feeling’. Don Everly (guitar); Phil Everly (guitar); Chester B. “Chet” Atkins (electric guitar); Sonny Curtis (guitar); Floyd T. “Lightnin’” Chance (bass); Jerry “J.I.” Allison (drums); Floyd Cramer (piano). Producer: Archie Bleyer.

The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (born February 1, 1937) and Phillip "Phil" Jason Everly(January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014), the duo was raised in a musical family, first appearing on radio singing along with their father Ike Everly and mother Margaret Everly as "The Everly Family" in the 1940s. When the brothers were still in high school, they gained the attention of prominent Nashville musicians like Chet Atkins, who began to groom them for national attention.

They began writing and recording their own music in 1956, and their first hit song came in 1957, with "Bye Bye Love", written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. The song hit number 1 in the spring of 1957, and additional hits would follow through 1958, many of them written by the Bryants, including "Wake Up Little Susie", "All I Have to Do Is Dream", and "Problems". In 1960, they signed with the major label Warner Bros. Records and recorded "Cathy's Clown", written by the brothers themselves, which was their biggest selling single. The brothers enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1961, and their output dropped off, though additional hit singles continued through 1962, with "That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)" being their last top-10 hit.

Long-simmering disputes with Wesley Rose, the CEO of Acuff-Rose Music, which managed the group, and growing drug usage in the 1960s, as well as changing tastes in popular music, led to the group's decline in popularity in its native U.S., though the brothers continued to release hit singles in the U.K. and Canada, and had many highly successful tours throughout the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the brothers began releasing solo recordings, and in 1973 they officially broke up. Starting in 1983, the brothers got back together, and would continue to perform periodically until Phil's death in 2014.

The group was highly influential on the music of the generation that followed it. Many of the top acts of the 1960s were heavily influenced by the close-harmony singing and acoustic guitar playing of the Everly Brothers, including the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, and Simon & Garfunkel. The Everly Brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class of 1986, and into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. Don was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019, earning the organization's first Iconic Riff Award for his distinctive rhythm guitar intro to the Everlys' massive 1957 hit “Wake Up Little Susie”. 

[Verse]

Never felt like this until I kissed ya

How did I exist until I kissed ya

Never had you on my mind

Now you're there all the time

Never knew what I missed 'til I kissed ya

Uh-huh I kissed ya, oh yeah

Things have really changed since I kissed ya, uh-huh

My life's not the same now that I kissed ya, oh yeah

[Chorus]

Mmm, you got a way about ya

Now I can't live without ya

Never knew what I missed 'til I kissed ya

Uh-huh, I kissed ya, oh yeah

[Bridge]

You don't realize what you do to me

And I didn't realize what a kiss could be

[Chorus]

Mmm, you got a way about ya

Now I can't live without ya

Never knew what I missed 'til I kissed ya

Uh-huh, I kissed ya, oh yeah

[Bridge]

You don't realize what you do to me

And I didn't realize what a kiss could be

[Chorus]

Mmm, you got a way about ya

Now I can't live without ya

Never knew what I missed 'til I kissed ya

Uh-huh, I kissed ya, oh yeah

[Outro]

I kissed ya, uh-huh

I kissed ya, oh yeah

I kissed ya...